Abstract:We describe the implementation of an out-of-core, distribution-based sorting program on a cluster using FG, a multithreaded programming framework. FG mitigates latency from disk-I/O and interprocessor communication by overlapping such high-latency operations with other operations. It does so by constructing and executing a coarse-grained software pipeline on each node of the cluster, where each stage of the pipeline runs in its own thread. The sorting program distributes data among the nodes to create sorted r… Show more
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